Sentences with phrase «jihadist group»

Members of the Shura Council are affiliated with Ansar al Sharia and other jihadist groups in Misrata.

As New Scientist went to press, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic were finalising their game plans to tackle the rise of Sunni jihadist group Islamic State, but the issue of homegrown fighters won't be far from their minds.

Ten months later, gunmen and suicide bombers from the Islamic State jihadist group attacked bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the national stadium in Paris on November 13, 2015, killing 130 people.

Although Muslim reform may seem like an oxymoron to those who see Islam only through the lens of graphic violence, Muslim reformers have been in the sights of jihadist groups such as at Qaeda for years.

The cease - fire that had been brokered between the US and Russia between forces loyal to Assad and the assorted rebel groups opposing it — designed to allow Moscow and Washington to join forces and smash IS and the other jihadist groups — agreed upon on September 12, is over.

The arrests follow earlier reports that six young people had left the country and may have joined jihadist groups in the Middle East

Islamic jihadist groups Boko Haram and Al Shabbab terrorize African communities in Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Somalia, Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Tanzania - which of those countries is engaged in military occupation?

Islamic State's offshoot in Afghanistan, known as the Sunni jihadist group's so - called Khorasan Province, is suspected of carrying out several attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslim targets.

Would an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have created a different reality in the Sinai Peninsula, where Jihadist groups are challenging Egypt's sovereignty and Israel's security?

President Trump has called out Pakistan for continuing to provide safe haven for jihadist groups such as the Taliban, which in turn supports al Qaeda and other global terrorist groups.

The halt will not apply to the battle against jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and al - Nusra Front.

Throw in an outsized security budget (thanks to terrorist threats from a southwestern Russia Jihadist group) and a massive corruption problem (opposition politicians estimated that Putin's cronies pocketed up to $ 30 billion), and it's not tough to see how Russia massively overran its $ 12 billion budget.

The administration has also sought to re-engage Pakistan to end its support for friendly jihadist groups and has limited the number of strikes in Pakistan in order to reduce tensions.

Things are not nearly as bad as they were a decade ago but, as the Crisis Group warned in its two 2012 reports that militant attacks are still a regular part of life, often against police or government targets; jihadist groups still operate in small numbers in the region; and, of course, the 2010 Moscow subway bombing was only three years ago.

While there is so far no evidence that the brothers were associated to international jihadist groups, in August 2012, soon after returning from a long visit to Russia, Tamerlan created a YouTube channel with links to a number of videos including sermons or interviews with radical preachers.

Occurring just one day after a slew of horrific terror left Paris reeling, the 2016 Democratic debate Saturday night took on an unprecedented level of seriousness as the three candidates in the race debated who was best qualified to combat bloodthirsty jihadist groups like ISIS.

Why should the west take any action that directly or indirectly strengthens the hand of a deeply divided insurgency that has become increasingly radicalised and in which hard - line jihadist groups and al - Qaeda affiliates emerge as dominant actors?

When the movie begins, Nakia is embedded with a group of women in Nigeria who have been kidnapped by a militant group, an unmistakable stand - in for the schoolgirls kidnapped by the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram.

Nuclear weapons would also strengthen the very terrorist jihadist groups — the ones Iran has been funding all along — that the West claims it is trying to counter.

Winter tells TechCrunch: «Now, there's no two ways about it — Telegram is first and foremost the centre of gravity online for the Islamic State, and other Salafi jihadist groups.

In a press release, the government says the Bill is a response to three things: the attacks against Canadian soldiers in Quebec and in Ottawa last autumn; to young Quebecers joining or attempting to join jihadist groups in the Middle East; and to a public backlash against the Muslim community.

Most worrying for the West and Libya's neighbors is the growing strength of jihadist group, including the Islamic State, in the vacuum of power created by national divisions.

Suicide bombers stormed Libya's electoral commission in Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at least a dozen people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

3) Al Qaeda (or some other jihadist group) obtains a significant nuclear capability, and the aftermath of the nuclear exchange of 2019 reduces the population to about 5 % of the present number.

Jihadist groups, including ISIS, are fighting for control in some areas of the country, and moderate rebels who oppose Assad are fighting jihadists and the regime.

Nevertheless, recent successes by Kurdish peshmerga and federal forces controlled by Baghdad point to a reversal of the jihadist group's offensive in Iraq, likely leading to its containment and eventual eviction from Mosul, Falluja, and Tikrit.

So far, every strike against the Islamic State in Somalia occurred in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland, where the jihadist group has a foothold.

The jihadist group calling itself Islamic State devotes considerable effort to living up to its name — specifically, the «state» part of it.

The second deadliest group was Nigeria's Boko Haram, a jihadist group that orchestrated 364 attacks last year that killed 1,132 people.

Al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the jihadist group al - Mourabitoun claimed to be behind the attacks, which included two hotels along with the Cappuccino Cafe.

This was the case in Iraq during the military operations against the jihadist group Islamic State and the Levant (ISIS).

Second, the security dynamic is deteriorating given that Jihadist groups have found new resources.

For the first time, the United States and Russia conducted combined airstrikes on an Islamic State - controlled oil field in Raqqa in eastern Syria, a major part of a half a billion dollar crude industry sustaining the jihadist group, the Sunday Express reported.

The question arose Thursday as part of the international focus on last month's abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by the jihadist group in northeast Nigeria that threatens to sell them into slavery.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly said that the Boko Haram jihadist group has been defeated but BBC analysis of its attacks shows little change.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for what was the deadliest attack to hit the capital since mid-October but the Islamic State jihadist group has claimed nearly all such bombings.

A 16 - year - old boy, the youngest on trial for terrorism offences in Canada, has been found guilty by a Quebec youth court judge of committing a robbery in association with a terrorist organization and planning to leave Canada to join a jihadist group abroad.

In it, Farrow called on social networks like Twitter and Facebook to «do more to stop terrorists from inciting violence,» and argued that if these platforms screen for things like child porn, they should do the same for material that «drives ethnic conflict,» such as calls for violence from Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi, the leader of the Jihadist group known as ISIS.